August 08

Senate Submission: Academic Freedom

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MAKE EDUCATION FAIR 13th August 2008

Committee Secretary

Senate Education, Employment and Workplace Relations Committee

Department of the Senate

SUBMISSION TO SENATE INQUIRY INTO ACADEMIC FREEDOM

The Young Liberal movement and the Australian Liberal Students Federation are gravely concerned about fairness in education. We welcome the opportunity to provide a submission into the inquiry into Academic Freedom, representing the voice of mainstream students across the country.

Make Education Fair Campaign

Bias at our high schools and university campuses has reached epidemic proportions. Many of our student members have approached us with numerous stories of this bias being expressed by teachers, reflected in the curriculum or in a hostile atmosphere for students who cannot freely express their views.

We would like to ensure that all students continue to have the right to exercise freedom of thought and expression, without fear of reprisal or penalty.

Over the past few months, the Make Education Fair campaign has actively sourced examples from students who have experienced bias on university campuses.

The depth of academic bias uncovered by this campaign, most notably in the arts faculties of Australia’s major universities, is gravely disturbing and poses significant challenges for diversity within the education sector. The examples that have been provided to us indicate the following problems with academic freedom within Australia:

• A lack of diversity amongst academics and the willingness of educators to use the classroom to promote their views

• A chilling effect on free speech on university campuses, with only certain points of view deemed acceptable for expression

• The insertion of extreme left viewpoints into both high school and university curricula with the intent to indoctrinate students to these views, accompanied by the silencing of dissenting views

• A focus on ‘social justice’ topics by teachers rather than on hard disciplines, resulting in an alarming drop in both literacy and numeracy

Australian students value our traditions of intellectual diversity and academic freedom and want to see them continue. Universities and other places of higher learning are supposed to be places where different ideas and viewpoints can be freely exchanged. Unfortunately, the Make Education Fair campaign has uncovered numerous examples, which demonstrate unequivocally that some educators use their classrooms to express and impose their political views on students. ACADEMIC FREEDOM

We enclose a selection of those examples, in the following categories:

1. Profiles of various academics 2. Photos of the campus environment and union funded publications 3. Extracts from Course Guides & Related Materials 4. Course Descriptions exhibiting bias

Nigel Freitas Campaign Director Make Education Fair

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Part 1 ‐ Academic Profiles

As well as being educators, many of Australia’s leading academics are also activists for far left social causes. According to Associate Professor Gregory Melluish:

“A recent article in The Economist (reprinted in The Australian on December 15) bemoaned the lack of political diversity in American universities. It contended," “Academe is simultaneously both the part of the US that is most obsessed with diversity and the least diverse part of the country".

It pointed to a survey of more than 1,000 academics that showed that Democrats outnumbered Republicans by something like seven to one in the humanities and social sciences.

If the situation looks lopsided in the US, a country that has a large and relatively diverse university system, then it is nothing short of desperate in Australia with its small and homogenous set of public universities. The lack of intellectual and political diversity in the humanities and social sciences in Australia is perhaps their most significant defining feature.”

To highlight the extent of the lack of diversity within academia, we have listed just a few of this country’s prominent academics and their involvement in radical left causes.

Wendy Bacon

During the 1960s, Wendy Bacon was a member of a Sydney anarchist group known as the Push. The Push opposed what they saw as conservative forms of authority, rejected traditional morality and embraced drinking, gambling, sex and anarchy.

"One of the good things about The Push is that there was a very strong belief in open inquiry and discussion, but I guess the core of The Push was certainly more radical. One of the things I think that attracted me to it, for whatever deep psychological reasons I have got a fairly strong anti-authoritarian streak. But I was also very drawn to radical social movements. One of the things about The Push was that The Push philosophies took on board if you like, the tragedies of communism over the twentieth century... declared it a failure, but believed nevertheless in resistance and permanent protest."

Bacon, while editor of Tharunka, was arrested for breaking the censorship laws, publishing obscene and hateful anti-Christian slogans. According to author James Franklin, Bacon is a relativist who believed that "moral views are connected to social movements...no one set of views is inherently preferable to another. Seen in this light, depravity and corruptions cease to have any meaning.’

Wendy Bacon is the Program Director for Journalism at UTS.

Eva Cox

Eva Cox is a feminist activist and the chair of the Women's Electoral Lobby, which actively campaigned against Work Choices at the last federal election. Her most recent foray into public life was when she criticised the 20/20 summit in a racist tirade as 'white anglo blokes'. In the 1950s, Cox was a member of the radical anarchist ACADEMIC FREEDOM group The Push, along with fellow UTS academic Wendy Bacon. In the 1970s she joined the Labor party as an anti-war and feminist advocate,

Cox is open about her radical activist agenda, stating that "I’ve always seen myself as a radical reformist. I’ve tried to help create a society in which people are not excluded and not diminished by being members of particular groups and I’ve used many different ways to try and get that message across. " After the last election, Cox also expressed the opinion that after the Howard era Australia was a "damaged society"

Eva Cox was a lecturer in Social Sciences at UTS

Peter Singer

Peter Singer has been at the forefront of the animal rights movement and has stated that "mutually satisfying activities" of a sexual nature may sometimes occurbetween humans and animals. Singer also believes that it is morally acceptable to kill disabled children - "I do think that it is sometimes appropriate to kill a human infant. For me, the relevant question is, what makes it so seriously wrong to take a life? Those of you who are not vegetarians are responsible for taking a life every time you eat. Species is no more relevant than race in making these judgments."

Singer is hostile to the idea that human life is worth anymore than animal life, which he calls 'specieism' Singer has stated that "the notion that human life is sacred just because it is human life is medieval.” He has also justified involuntary euthanasia by writing "In some cases it would be right to kill a person who does not choose to die."

Peter Singer is a laureate professor at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics at the University of Melbourne.

Catharine Lumby

Catharine Lumby was hired as a 'gender expert’ by the National Rugby League after a series of gang rapes rocked the code. Her first pronouncement was to criticise what she saw as ’moral panic’ and claim that there was no problem with group sex as long as the woman was treated with respect. Says Catharine - "The idea that group sex is aberrant is a very particular view."

Lumby, a radical feminist, has also defended pornography is a potentially liberating tool for women and claimed Big Brother Uncut helps young people to show 'care and respect for other people in sexual encounters'.

Catharine Lumby is Director of the Journalism and Media Research Centre at the University of NSW, having previously been the Director of the Media and Communications Program at Sydney University.

The Department of Critical and Cultural Studies, Macquarie University

The Macquarie Division of Society, Culture, Media and Philosophy features a number of fashionably politically correct schools, including the Institute of Women's Studies, the Warawara Deparment of Indigenous Studies, a Centre for Research on Social Inclusion and the Department of Critical and Cultural studies. These academics who make up this department specialise in an incredibly diverse range of areas, including

* Dr N. Anderson - Feminist & Gender theory, Postmodernism

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* Dr A. Lambert - Gender & Sexuality, Anti-colonialism

* Dr Samantha Murray - Gender Studies, Queer Theory, Feminism

* Dr Nikki Sullivan - Queer Theory, Postmodernism

Peter Manning

Peter Manning spent 8 years at the ABC, working in Radio, News & Current affairs and Four Corners. In 2006, he authored a book claiming that media coverage of Muslims was tainted by racism and in 2007 wrote columns excusing Sheikh Al-Hilali's comments about women as 'uncovered meat'.

A critic of John Howard, Manning wrote that the Cronulla riots demonstrated the "true face of Australian fascism” and that "Howard spent a decade playing the race card...mainly against Arab and Muslim Australians”.

Manning teaches Journalism at UTS.

Sarah Maddison

According to her profile, who lectures in the School of Social Sciences and International Studies at the University of New South Wales. has researched 'focused audits on gender and sexuality' and is a member of the Women's Electoral Lobby. She is co-author of the Gender Audit for the Democratic Audit of Australia (2007 and her other research interests include Indigenous Politics, Social Change and Gender.

Recently, Maddison became concerned that Howard government was using ‘bullying, intimidation and public denigration to silence its critics one by one’. In fact, Maddison was so incensed by this silencing of dissent, she wrote a book about it, called, funnily enough, Silencing Dissent. Howard’s outrageous silencing tactics resulted in the book having a website, a newsletter, a prominent publisher, being featured at the Sydney & Perth Writers Festivals and reviewed in the Age, the Australian and the Sydney Morning Herald.

Carol Johnson

Professor Carol Johnson currently teaches at the School of History and Politics at Adelaide University. She has previously taught Communications at UTS. Among her main teaching interests are "the politics of gender and sexuality". Her research interests include:

* Australian Labor Governments

* Howard Government

* Politics of Gender & Sexuality

* Socialist Theory

Johnson has written articles entitled "Narratives of identity: Denying empathy in conservative discourses on race, class and sexuality", "Against the current - stemming the tide: the nostalgic ideology of the contemporary radical populist right" and "Heteronormativity and the Symbolic Order: Gay and Lesbian Issues as a Politics of Signs.

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Academic Members of the Socialist Alternative

The site Marxist Interventions helpfully lists those academics who have produced "Marxist writings by Australians working primarily in the International Socialist tradition."

This brings to mind the so-called independent research conducted into WorkChoices by active union members: "We are entitled to ask whether an academic who publicly moans about the Howard Government's re-election in 2004 is independent. We are entitled to query whether this academic, who admits “I am a socialist” and a former workplace delegate and talks about positioning “ourselves as unionists” for the future by building up “militants and its militant base”, is the best person to offer up non- partisan research on Work Choices.” Janet Albrechtsen, The Australian, October 2007

Academics listed on the site:

* Tom Bramble teaches Industrial Relations at the University of Queensland . His research and publications are in such areas as union and managerial strategies, labour flexibility and new production systems, and the political economy of industry policy. He is the editor of Never a White Flag, the memoirs of New Zealand labour militant Jock Barnes, and a member of Socialist Alternative.

* Jamie Doughney is currently the senior researcher at Victoria University's Workplace Studies Centre. He entered academia in 1990 after a 20 year involvement as a trade unionist and radical activist. This included a period on the staff and as editor of Direct Action.

* Carole Ferrier is the editor of Hecate: A Women's Interdisciplinary Journal and an Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of Queensland . She teaches in a range of courses in the areas of gender, class, race and ethnicity in relation to literature, especially Australian literature, and has also published widely in these areas. She has been an activist for democratic rights for thirty years, and her politics have remained consistently international socialist.

* Martin Hirst has been active in socialist politics since 1975 and claims to have been the only Trotskyist to ever work in the federal press gallery as a journalist. Martin is now teaching journalism at the AUT University NZ and has just written a book about journalism ethics.

* Rick Kuhn teaches politics at the Australian National University . His publications and interests are in the areas of Australian, German and Austrian politics and economic policy and Marxist theory, notably the biography of the Marxist economist Henryk Grossman. He is a member of Socialist Alternative and maintains the Marxism page.

* Georgina Murray trained and taught as a sociologist in New Zealand at Auckland University but has taught politics since moving to Australia in 1990. She currently works in the Humanities Department, Griffith University, Nathan, Brisbane Qld.

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Australian Critical Race and Whiteness Studies Association

A group of academics have got together to form an association of like minded people who 'recognise that whiteness operates though institutions, ideology and identity formation to secure ... privileges for white people'. According to their website, the Australian Critical Race and Whiteness Studies Association (ACRWSA) seeks to 'expose and challenge white race privilege in Australia and elsewhere.'

The ACRWSA has announced the topic of their next conference which features speakers from Queensland University of Technology, Monash University and La Trobe University amongst others. Dubbed 'Re-Orienting Whiteness', the conference will examine crucial themes such as 'Indigenous perspectives on whiteness', the 'gendered privilege of whiteness' and the eternal question 'How important were global imperial processes to the operation of white power?'

Let's take a look at the academics behind this association:

Damon Riggs, President

Dr Damon Riggs cites his key research areas as 'critical race and whiteness studies, queer studies'. Riggs claims that 'white people continue to benefit from unearned privilege that comes largely at the expense of Indigenous people.'

His current area of interest is looking 'what it means to speak as a white queer person in a colonial nation: how may white queer rights come at the expense of the rights of other marginalised groups, and how may white queer people often fail to explore our complicity with racism?'

Dr Damon Riggs teaches Psychology at the University of Adelaide

Anna Szorenyi, Vice President

Apart from critical race theory and whiteness studies, Anna Szorenyi also researches 'transnational feminism' and 'refugees and representation.' Szorenyi has a PhD in Women's Studies and Gender Research from Monash University and has taught in gender studies and media studies courses at Monash and Deakin Universities. She is also on the Editorial Board of the Australian Feminist Law Journal.

Anna Szonrenyi is a lecturer in the School of Social Science at the University of Adelaide

Kathleen Conellan, Treasurer

The research interests of Kathleen Connellan include:

• Critical race theory and its link with the representation of visual culture.

• Modernism and meaning in design: structure and control, whiteness and colour theory,

• Gender, materiality and embodiment Semiotics in the visual analysis of graphics and illustration.

• The relevance of socialist theory for twenty-first century design and craft practice.

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Dr Alia Imtoual, Secretary

Alia Imtoual also researches race, whiteness, racism and religion - with a particular focus on Muslim women. Her research also covers media treatment of Muslims in Australia. She is a member of the Australian college of Educators.

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Part 2 ‐ Photos of the Campus Environment

Just a few months ago, a Catholic student group was placed on probation and banned from displaying posters advertising pregnancy counseling. This was because the university had a policy that only pro-choice materials were permitted on campus.

The lack of diversity in academic manifests itself most notably in the creation of a hostile atmosphere for mainstream students on campus, where certain politican views are censored and silenced. Additionally, many student organisations have historically used mandatory student union levies to fund ideological and political propaganda.

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Part 3 ‐ Extracts from Course Guides

Primary School Curriculums

NSW K-6 English Syllabus

If you're wondering why basic literacy standards haven't improved since the 1960s, a good start would be to look at what the NSW K-6 English Syllabus has to say about grammar

NSW K-6 Human Society & It’s Environment

This particular study guide promotes the 'black armband' view of history, stating to students that the British invaded Australia.

High School Curriculums

AEU Curriculum guide

The AEU Curriculum guide shows why Teacher's Unions are failing students with an emphasis on social justice, cultural relativism and gender roles rather than education. For example:

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NSW Commerce Syllabus 7-10

If you thought Commerce had nothing to do with social justice, diversity, gender or Indigenous issues, think again.

According to the document:

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Home

The book 'Home ' by Larissa Behrendt explores 'issues of racial and colonial injustice' can be studied for VCE English. The following notes were provided to a Year12 student:

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University Materials

Economics, Business Ethics & Law

Below are select scans from "Economics, Business Ethics and Law, Lawbook Co, Sydney, 2003 (ISBN 0 455 21911 7)" a textbook written by Dr. Scott Mann, a lecturer from the School of Law at the University of Western Sydney. This text is the required reading for "Law, Economics and Business Ethics" (code 69017) which is an LLB elective subject. The subject can however be taken in a variety of degrees, including accounting and social sciences.

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Gender Studies GCST3601 - Gender, Race & Australian Identities Reading List (University of Sydney)

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International Business & Politics GOVT1406 - International Business & Politics Reading List (University of Sydney)

Below are scans from the reading list for this subject, with bias exhibited in the chosen materials

Education, Change & Society, Textbook for EDUF2007 - Social Perspectives On Education (Sydney University

Below are scans from the textbook for this subject.

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Part 4 ­ Course Descriptions Exhibiting Bias

A highly ideological Marxist worldview has been imported wholesale from radical activists in the United States. A quick look at the Course Descriptions for arts subjects from our major universities illustrates that, almost without exception, each subject area is viewed through the prism of gender, race, ethnicity, class or sexuality.

A subject on tourism for example, “explores travel and tourism through themes such as gender, class, race, imperialism, war, sexuality, modernity, postmodernity and consumption.” A subject on design considers “how architecture perpetuates the social order of gender”, while another on identity examines “whiteness as a representation of oppression”.

Below we list a sample of the course descriptions from Australia’s major universities. This sample is by no means exhaustive, but is indicative of the extent to which radical leftist viewpoints dominate the curriculum.

Subject Name / Number Faculty Description

University of New South Wales

The structural position of Aboriginal people within Australian society will be contextualised within the theory Aboriginal Australia: The DiNura Gili that colonialism is an ongoing Post-Colonial Experience - (Indigenous experience for Aboriginal Australians. ATSI2002 Progrms) Considers the implications for the future of Aboriginal self-determination and reconciliation in relation to contemporary government initiatives.

Investigates the formation of contemporary Indigenous identities in the context of the ongoing colonisation of Australia. Explores the interplay between culture and Colonisation and Nura Gili identity and analyses the various historic Indigenous Identity (Indigenous and academic constructions of Formation - ATSI3001 Progrms) Aboriginality. The history of imposed colonial notions of Aboriginal identity and their consequences for both Aboriginal people and non-indigenous Australians are identified and examined.

Encourages students to engage in a critical analysis of the way in which gender influences and structures the experiences of Aboriginal women and men in the past and the present. A wide range Indigenous Australia: Nura Gili of issues involving gender roles will be Gendered Identities - (Indigenous covered including land, art, activism, ATSI3002 Progrms) feminism, violence, race, and literature. Particular attention will be paid to colonial constructs of gender roles within Aboriginal communities. Aboriginal women's and men's roles in subverting the colonisation of their identities will be ACADEMIC FREEDOM

explored.

Whiteness is generally assumed to be the norm in classifying difference. It is also assumed to be neutral. Delves into whiteness as a mode of identification and whether it can be assumed to be the norm Whiteness Beyond Colour: Nura Gili as well as neutral. Topics include Identity and Difference - (Indigenous whiteness as Other, whiteness as a ATSI3005 Progrms) non-Indigenous identity, and whiteness in coloniser societies. Explorations of whiteness as a representation of oppression and as transformation will be addressed.

How has the landscape shaped the definition of what it means to be School of Paradise Lost? Australian Australian? Why was the bush so often English, Media Environmental History - seen as a place of the weird and the and Performing AUST1003 monstrous? Have white Australians Arts learned from Aboriginal relationships with the natural environment? .

Changes to urbanism over time, including contemporary perspectives, such as School of postcolonialism and critical race Australian Cultural & English, Media theory. Case studies engage the varied Social Environments - and Performing experience of urbanism by ethnicity, AUST2009 Arts gender, sexuality, nationalism. Examines issues of place representation, territory, heritage and socio-economic inequality.

Topics include an ecologically sustainable population; globalisation and international School of migration flows; brain drain to and from Social Australian Migration Issues Australia; multiculturalism; criteria in Sciences and - AUST2011 determining migration policy; settlement International issues; skilled migrants; refugees, Studies international aid and social justice; identity, ethnicity and community.

Major developments in Australian History in the period from Federation to the beginning of the Cold War. Themes include: Federation, White Australia policy, Inventing Australia: Race, School of defence, foreign affairs, entertainment, Nation, Identity, 1901-1949 - History and federal-state relations, labour, World War I AUST2019 Philosophy and its impact on society, women's rights, the experience of the Great Depression, the impact of World War II, Aboriginal people, work and politics.

Focuses on a range of policy issues and School of areas including: economic policy, social Power & Policy in Social policy, Industrial relations and industry Australian Politics - Sciences and policy, the environment, Indigenous AUST2024 International affairs, immigration and women's Studies policy. Encourages specialisation in specific policy areas, drawing on relevant analytical frameworks to produce policy ACADEMIC FREEDOM

briefs and case studies.

Broadly-based study of the rise of Australian theatre since the 1960s, with the focus on recent performance. The School of emphasis is on wide theatrical Staging Australia - English, Media movements, including the larrikin theatre AUST2027 and Performing of the 1970s, alternative/community Arts theatre; Aboriginal theatre; women's and multicultural performance; and current trends in playwriting and contemporary performance.

Explores the construction of masculinities through the study of a range of Australian texts. Beginning with an examination of key theoretical readings Australian Masculinities: School of in the area of gender, sex and Reading Gender, Sex and History and masculinity, the course will move on to Culture - AUST2033 Philosophy analyse these issues in a number of texts from various genres, both fictional and non-fictional, and various media, including literature, film and television.

Considers how gender relations shaped Australian society, culture and politics. Situates gender in relation to race, class, age, place and religion over 220 years of School of Australian history. Topics may include: Women and Men: Gender History and frontier mythologies, Aboriginal in Australia - AUST2034 Philosophy experience and gender, gender and the Pacific frontier, gender and law, gender and the arts, gender and domestic ideology, gender and religion, gender and work, feminisms.

Themes include Sydney's environmental, Aboriginal, immigrant and gendered School of The History of Sydney - histories, 'slums' and suburbs, History and AUST3103 communities and sub-cultures, heritage Philosophy and modernity, sex and food, the creation and impact of urban images.

Examines the role of war in both The Face of Battle: Anzac, Faculty of Arts consolidating and challenging definitions Kokoda and Beyond - and Social of gender, national and racial identity and AUST3105 Sciences considers how the Anzac identity has altered over time.

Beginning with an examination of key theoretical readings in the area of gender, School of sex and masculinity, the course will Australian Masculinities: English, Media move on to analyse these issues in a Reading Gender, Sex and and Performing number of texts from various genres, both Culture - ENGL3520 Arts fictional and non-fictional, and various media, including literature, film and television.

School of Explores from a socio-semiotic/cultural Texts of Desire: Feminist English, Media studies perspective the generic Perspectives on Popular and Performing characteristics and social role of popular ACADEMIC FREEDOM

Culture - ENGL3620 Arts fiction (especially romance fiction) in the construction and reconstruction of femininities.

Aims at gaining insights into the situation of gender among China's Han majority and its many ethnic minorities. Examines gender in various contexts such as politics, religion, economy, the arts, ethnicity, Westernisation and globalisation. Gender in Contemporary School of Specific topics include ideology of gender Chinese Culture and Languages and relations, sexual division of labour, gender Society - CHIN2303 Linguistics representation in theatre and visual arts, gendered roles in religious practices, marriage customs, and morality and sexuality. Students learn relevant cultural theory and its application to the study of gender in contemporary China.

Excerpts from film, literature and architecture will be used as illustrations for investigation and discussion into the Interior representation of gender and space. Gendered Spaces - Architecture Issues regarding the female and space, GENR0026 Program architectures of masculinity and the androgyne will be considered along with the mechanisms with which architecture perpetuates the social order of gender.

Addresses both general concerns and principles of Australian feminism and their School of application to a sample of specific issues Social involving personal and public life of Australian Feminist Issues Sciences and women and girls. Describe, analyse and - GENT1206 International discuss conventional ethics and social Studies responsibility from a feminist perspective. Contextualise and reflect on their university education from a gender perspective.

School of Examines social implications of the role of Social law in defining the limits of gender and Crime, Sex and Gender - Sciences and sexuality, regulating gender and sexual GENT1207 International relationships, and in reinforcing particular Studies gender and sex based interests.

The first half analyses major global problems such as the environment, resource depletion, Third World poverty and social breakdown, and explains these School of primarily in terms of the over- Social Global Crisis: Transition to consumption by rich countries. Critical a Sustainable Society - Sciences and attention is given to the present economic International GENT1403 system and to the values of consumer Studies society. The second half presents a vision of a sustainable alternative society, based on more simple lifestyles and self- sufficient communities. There will be a short visit to an alternative lifestyle ACADEMIC FREEDOM

educational site 45 minutes from the city.

Identify the inconsistency between policy and practice, especially through policies for Indigenous education. Become Culture, Identity & School of critically aware of the debates on Education - GENT1513 Education multiculturalism, gender, race and ethnicity and the interpretation of policies in practical application in pedagogical contexts

Assess educational governance in the light of social justice and equality of Ideology, Power & School of opportunity and access. Articulate the Education - GENT1514 Education social and political construction of gender, sexuality, class, ethnicity and race within the school culture

Changes to urbanism over time, including contemporary perspectives, such as School of postcolonialism and critical race theory. Australian Cultural & Biological, Case studies engage the varied Social Environments - Earth & experience of urbanism by ethnicity, GEOS2641 Environmental gender, sexuality, nationalism. Examines Sciences issues of place representation, territory, heritage and socio-economic inequality.

Looks at world change from ancient times, Faculty of Arts Women, Gender & World with reference to premodern women, and Social History - GLST1200 male-female relations, sexuality and social Sciences constructions of gender.

Examines gender issues in five tragedies Modern Greek and gives students the opportunity to Studies (School observe the consistency with which basic Pandora's Box - GREK3501 of Languages attitudes of men and women have and Linguistics)endured through the centuries in western society.

Looks at the way violence was used to dispossess Aboriginal people from their land and to establish and maintain convict society. Examines the complex relationships arising from sexuality: sex as a form of currency, domination, negotiation The Fatal Shore? and identity for both Aboriginal people and Aborigines, Convicts, School of Europeans. What is the legacy of these Immigrants and the Making History and brutal beginnings for modern Australia? of Australian Society - Philosophy Are we still marked by the convict stain? HIST1003 And how did the criminal system develop in Australia? Did early colonial Australia recreate the class, gender and ethnic inequalities of 18th and 19th century Britain? Also includes an excursion to a historic site in the Sydney region.

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historiographical approaches, including those dealing with race, gender, ethnicity, material culture, cultural and political history and environmental history

Explores women's status and roles in politics, culture, economy, and the family, in several countries of the Southeast Asian region; examines women and unofficial power (eg wives of male politicians like First Lady Imelda Marcos), School of women in politics like President Corazon Women in Southeast Asian History and Aquino, and activists including militant Societies - HIST2050 Philosophy nuns; addresses the controversial issues of women's victimisation such as prostitution, mail-order brides and domestic helpers; finally, cultural constructions of the feminine and national identity including women and the veil, beauty queens and revolutionaries

Suggests ways in which these issues may Rights & Riots: Gender & School of be addressed, by considering a variety of Politics in 18th-century History and approaches to the history of women, France - HIST2080 Philosophy gender and politics in modern France.

Modern India - HIST2055 School of Examines the history of Modern India, and History and the controversies surrounding history in Philosophy the subcontinent. Topics include the Mughal empire, the British Raj, the Indian Nationalist Movement, Mahatma Gandhi, Independence and the partition of India into the new nations of India and Pakistan, independent India and the effects of globalisation in South Asia. Themes include colonialism and its aftermath, resistance, gender and religious nationalism.

Considers how gender relations shaped Australian society, culture and politics. Situates gender in relation to race, class, age, place and religion over 220 years of School of Australian history. Topics may include: Women and Men: Gender History and frontier mythologies, Aboriginal experience in Australia - HIST2104 Philosophy and gender, gender and the Pacific frontier, gender and law, gender and the arts, gender and domestic ideology, gender and religion, gender and work, feminisms.

School of Important themes include sex, gender, The Medieval World - History and Christianity, Islam, heresy, state formation, HIST2201 Philosophy feudalism, imperialism and warfare.

Interrogates the nexus between Colonialism in Question: School of colonialism and modernity from an The West and the Rest History and historical perspective. Focuses on key since 1850 - COMD3001 Philosophy debates about western power: its origins, its impact on Asia, Africa and the Americas, and the ways in which the ACADEMIC FREEDOM

colonised have negotiated it to fashion and refashion their own worlds.

Explores Sydney's dramatic transformation from a tiny preindustrial penal settlement to a sprawling city of over four million people by examining the interplay of natural, cultural and spatial Urban Legends: The School of histories in the broader context of urban History of Sydney - History and history and historiography. Themes HIST3103 Philosophy include Sydney's environmental, Aboriginal, immigrant and gendered histories, 'slums' and suburbs, communities and sub-cultures, heritage and modernity, sex and food, the creation and impact of urban images.

A global perspective on our modern environmental condition and its development, primarily in Europe, the US and Australia, since pre-industrial times. Topics include: human impacts and School of natural changes in climate, the forests and Environmental History - History and the oceans; changing concepts of the HIST3106 Philosophy natural world; economics and environmental damage; the impact of population growth and the industrial revolution; imperialism and its ecological effects on indigenous peoples; modern conservation and environmental movements.

Examines the theory and practice of feminist history, comprising histories of women, gender and sexualities. School of Clio's Craft: Writing Emphasises changing approaches to History and Feminist Histories - feminist history inspired by different sorts Philosophy HIST3907 of feminist theory - recently, for example, by sexual difference ('French') feminism and postcolonial feminism.

Examination of the treatment of race, colonialism and colonised peoples in the history of political philosophy and in contemporary debates. We will critically examine arguments for and against the rights of colonised indigenous peoples, the relationship between group specific School of and human rights, and philosophical Colonialism, Race and History and responses to historical injustice. Topics Human Rights - PHIL2511 Philosophy include the relationship between colonialism and European theories of property and government, theories of historical injustice and the justification of reparations, arguments for minority cultural rights, legal and political reponses to cultural difference, rights to self-determination.

The Social Relations of Sex School of Introduces some of the main theories of ACADEMIC FREEDOM and the Sexes - POLS2041 Social power and of sexuality; analyses different Sciences and sexualities, and issues relating to International sexuality, in the context of theories of Studies power. Topics include compulsory heterosexuality; the construction of masculinity, femininity and desire; marriage and prostitution; sexuality and work; body politics; and pornography and popular culture

Examines the human rights debate in Australia by first examining the idea of School of human rights and the international human Social Human Rights and Wrongs rights system. Considers mechanisms Sciences and in Australia - POLS2047 within Australia to promote and protect International human rights, and examines case studies Studies including IVF, refugees, indigenous land rights, hate crimes and free speech.

Examines Australian political practice from a feminist perspective. Focuses on the gender dimensions of a range of political institutions including the constitution, School of Parliament, the bureaucracy, the judiciary Social and the media. Explores the effect that Gender, Power and Politics Sciences and gendered norms in political practice have in Australia - POLS2051 International in women's lives and on women's political Studies experiences. Considers specific areas of policy, political institutions and political practice such as work and family policy, representation and the feminist policy machinery.

Examines the relationship between social movements and the policy process in contemporary Australia. Social movements studied will include the women's movement, the environment School of movement, the lesbian and gay rights Social Activism and Public Policy movement, the anti-capitalist Sciences and - POLS2052 movement, and the men's rights International movement. Concepts such as Studies opportunities and constraints, institutionalisation and cooption will be explored within a framework of social movement theory that asks whether social movements can still be considered legitimate actors in the policy process.

Introduces students to some key areas of feminist thought, past and present, to Faculty of Arts feminist scholarship today and questions Introduction to Feminism - and Social of sex and gender. There will also be a WOMS1001 Sciences focus on representation, categories of identity, and differences within and critiques of feminism. A central aim is to introduce students to the heterogeneity or breadth of thinking covered by the term ACADEMIC FREEDOM

'feminism'.

Introduces the work of major and adventurous women writers of this century, which draws on the genres of Faculty of Arts novel, short story, poetry and drama. A Twentieth-Century Women and Social wide range of issues will be explored, Writers - WOMS2001 Sciences including formal innovation, identity formation and the interaction of gender, race and class within the practices of writing and reading

Yet the following century saw the development of a new and more subtle Faculty of Arts form of patriarchy, the increasing Gender, Race, Nature and and Social discrimination and exploitation of Reason - WOMS2002 Sciences colonised peoples and minorities, and the emergence of nationalism and Fascism.

Begins with Classical Greece and establishes some important themes concerning gender, sex and culture which will be traced through the intervention of colonisation, Christianity, and the development of social sciences from the 18th century; traces the relationship Faculty of Arts between sexuality and socio-political A History of Sexualities - and Social control in the 19th and 20th centuries; WOMS2003 Sciences investigates the shaping of sexualities through art, literature, cinema and media as well as pornography; and looks beyond the infamy of Lesbos, Mary Magdalen, the Marquis de Sade, Oscar Wilde, Margaret Mead, and Monica Lewinsky, amongst others, to uncover a rich history of the west.

How we divide our own bodies into alien parts that may delight or repulse us is part of a larger social process that includes Faculty of Arts how we experience the world, how we live Society and Desire - and Social our sex, sexuality and cultural difference. WOMS2005 Sciences Will draw on several continental thinkers.An appreciation of the entangled relation between sex, gender and sexuality

Introduces some of the main theories of power and of sexuality; analyses different sexualities, and issues relating to sexuality, in the context of theories of Sexuality and Power: The Faculty of Arts power. Topics include compulsory Social Relations of Sex and and Social heterosexuality; the construction of the Sexes - WOMS2006 Sciences masculinity, femininity and desire; marriage and prostitution; sexuality and work; body politics; and pornography and popular culture.

Faculty of Arts Offers a modern history of 'feminist' Feminism: A Transnational and Social movements, issues and ideas, with an ACADEMIC FREEDOM

History - WOMS2107 Sciences emphasis also on feminisms in the academy. Responds to the postcolonial feminist critique of the 2nd Wave western (liberal and radical) feminist notion of a global 'sisterhood' and the accompanying demand that women's many differences be recognised.

Considers the nature of sexuality and ideas about the role of sexual difference in the constitution of the bodily subject. The social significance of the connection between gender and such distinctions as Faculty of Arts Representation and Sexual culture/nature, reason/passion and and Social Difference - WOMS2109 public/private is examined in the light of Sciences feminist critiques. Also raises questions about philosophy and feminism with respect to issues of argument, advocacy and style.Describe the main themes in feminist philosophy

Explores the construction of masculinities through the study of a range of Australian texts. Beginning with an examination of key theoretical readings in the area of Australian Masculinities: Faculty of Arts gender, sex and masculinity, the course Reading Gender, Sex and and Social will move on to analyse these issues in a Culture - WOMS3005 Sciences number of texts from various genres, both fictional and non-fictional, and various media, including literature, film and television.

Students learn about gender and sexual ideologies, identities and experiences in contemporary Japan. First critically discusses analyses of (heterosexual) women and female gender roles. Gender and Sexuality in School of Consideration of sex work(ers) in Japan is Contemporary Japan - Languages and also made. Masculinities in Japan are JAPN3602 Linguistics discussed, including descriptions of hegemonic masculinity, fatherhood, domestic violence, and youth cultures. Finally, analyses of gay, lesbian and other non-hegemonic gender and sexual identities are discussed

This course concentrates on art after 1960 which deals with issues of gender, sexuality and the body. The course will start with postminimalism, performance and body art. It examines the rise of School of Art women's art in the 1960s and 70s, the first Art, Gender, Sexuality and History and Art art to self-consciously attempt to represent the Body - SAHT2642 Education gender difference, and will track the shifting concerns and debates in art about the body, gender and sexuality from then until now. This period coincides with an explosion of feminist theory and the widening of feminist debates to include questions of sexuality, race and ACADEMIC FREEDOM

ethnicity.

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This unit offers a broad exploration of these questions focusing on themes AUST100 - Australian Department of concerning geography and environment, Perspectives I: Maps, Modern History gender, race, class, culture and Dreams, History history. It serves as an introduction to Australian Studies.

Issues of race, nationalism, gender, and Department of culture will form a part of the overall HIST217 - Australia, Britain Modern mosaic of British and colonial history and the Empire 1770-1901 History within which work in this unit will be located.

Topics include convict women, women and the bush. Extensive use will be made HIST245 - Women in Department of of biographical and autobiographical Australian History, 1788- Modern History materials. Australian girl, Aboriginal 1988 women, the first feminists, women and war, the `femocrat'.

This course explores the history, meanings and experiences of travel and tourism from late antiquity to the present HIST264 - Travel, Tourism Department of day through themes such as gender, and Cultural Production Modern History class, race, imperialism, war, sexuality, modernity, postmodernity and consumption.

We look at the Cold War, the Americanisation of Europe, and the fall of communism; the effects of decolonisation HIST270 - Twentieth Department of and postcolonial immigration on European Century Europe: from Modern History societies; the growth and eventual erosion Empire to EU of the welfare state; civil rights, peace and environmental movements; the development of the EEC and the EU.

Included here is land, political resistance,assimilation, labour and sexual relations, anthropology, HIST271/371 - Indigenous- ideology, self-determination , rights Settler Relations in Department of and sovereignty. The unit starts with Australia: Contact, Context Modern History some theoretical consideration and Shared Histories from of colonialism and draws out a range of 1750 themes to emphasise the complex connections and disconnections of a shared history.

Topics will include the nature of belief an ideology in contemporary Australia, AUST300 - Australian Department of the environment and sustainable Perspective II Modern History development, the colonial heritage, democracy and political conflict, and the place of sport in Australian culture.

HIST340 - Australian Department of The course considers Australian history ACADEMIC FREEDOM

History since 1901 Modern History through various categories of analysis, including class, race, ethnicity and gender.

Next, we look at the role of Indian resources and indentured labour in the formation of the modern global economy HIST363 - South Asian Department of from the eighteenth century, to examine Worlds Modern History how south Asians re-shaped those places where they were hostages to imperialism and capitalism.

In this unit you will be invited to focus upon the questions of gender and sexuality in European history from the age of the Enlightenment until the end of the First World War. This period saw conceptions of masculinity and femininity radically redefined and gender relations reconceived in the wake of industrialisation, the emergence ofbourgeois society and the rise of nationalism and imperialism. The unit HIST255 - Sex & Gender in Department of will examine the ways in which concepts Europe and Empire Modern History of gender were effected byissues of class and ethnicity both in relation to Europe and in various discourses aroundimperialism. The mergence of feminism will also be explored. Students will gain an understanding of the concept of gender as an historical category and a knowledge of the ways in which gender is relevant to the consideration of major intellectual, political and social developments in European history since the Enlightenment.

Exploring the intersection between religion, reform and revolution this unit will examine women's various means of producing history from the vitae of saints produced by Medieval nuns, through the HIST338 - Writing Women's Department of confessional history produced by Catholic History Modern History and Protestant women during the Reformation, the historical fictions and national tales that heralded romantic history, to the more explicitly feministwritings of women that appeared in the wake of French Revolution.

Focusing on the historical construction of gender(masculinities and femininities) in a range ofcolonial sites and episodes HIST367 - Gender and Department of from the 18th to the 20th centuries, Empire Modern History students will explore the intersections of gender with race, class, sexuality, religion, politics and culture.

CUL201 - Australian Department of Topics will include the constructions of Cultural Studies Critical and gender, the cultural construction of Cultural Australian history in heritage sites and ACADEMIC FREEDOM

Studies museums, and representations of the political. There will be a particular focus onethnicity, 'race' and the construction of multiculturalism. A continuing theme will be the different constructions of Aboriginality in the periods examined

This unit examines the practices of Department of contemporary performance work, CUL203 - Performance Critical and identifying social and cultural issues Studies I Cultural (relating to gender, femininity, Studies masculinity, and ethnicity) and artists' strategies.

Queer theory is first positioned in relation to historically antecedent definitions of subjectivity in terms of gender and sexual practice. The unit's primary concerns are queer theory's repositioning of the Department of CUL204 - subject, and its claims to represent a Critical and Sexuality/Gender/Culture: radical contestation of received Western Cultural Queer Theory cultural concepts of gender, order, Studies sexual and social structures. The course addresses topics such as community, HIV/AIDS, race, fetishism and so on, and includes the use of filmic texts.

The following practices, sites and objects will be examined: graffiti, hip hop and crimes of style; graffiti and the identity Department of politics of public space; the relation CUL207 - Graffiti, Kitsch Critical and between kitsch and high art; the politics of and Trash: Crimes of Style Cultural kitsch in the context of colonialism and Studies Indigeneity; the tcultural politics of tourist sites, gigantism and miniaturism; queer and celebrity kitsch.

We examine: Australia's refugee crisis; the moral and cultural panic generated by the ethnic descriptor 'of Middle Eastern appearance'; thepower of Department of whiteness; the racialisation of criminality CUL301- Unassimilable Critical and and the prison industry; the politics and Bodies: UnAustralian Cultural poetics of unassimilable bodies; queer Cultural Studies Studies ethnic bodies and intercultural desire; buried histories of internment; Indigenous life-writing and the cultural politics of counter-histories; and diaspora and the poetics of anger.

The second central feature of anthropology which is highlighted in this course is in the analysis of contemporary ANTH150: Identity and Department of globalisation and the complex identities Difference: Introduction to Anthropology of race, post-colonialism and Anthropology nationalism. Throughout the course, the analysis of power and inequality links the theme of identity to difference.

LAW418: Indigenous Department of The special place of Indigenous peoples ACADEMIC FREEDOM

Peoples and the Law Law in Australia gives rise to unique questions of law. Most fundamentally, there is the challenge ofacknowledging the existence of more than one legal order in the one geographical space. Within this framework of inquiry, the unit discusses the concepts of sovereignty, treaty, cultural diversity, pluralism, identity and colonialism, and discusses in detail official laws in relation to native title, heritage protection, criminal law, andreparation for past injustices.

How does it contribute to constructing sexual identities? How useful is it as an emancipatory tool for sex and gender outsiders? In engaging with these LAW520: Law and Department of questions, this unit will explore topics Sexuality Law ranging from pornography to gay marriage and parenting, and draw on historical and theoretical sources, including liberal jurisprudence and queer theory.

What is the relation between sex and gender? How does gender-based oppression intersect with other forms of oppression, such as those based onrace, PHIL352 Philosophical Department of ethnicity and class? This unit will focus Problems of Gender Philosophy on these and other questions .In addition, it will examine contemporary feminist debates in ethics and epistemology.

Despite persistent rhetoric that Australia is one nation, united and indivisible, the realities of social division in this country are undeniable. One's skin colour, ethnicity, social class background, gender, and sexuality continue to have a significant affect on one's social status and life chances. Moreover, these divisions are shaped by, and in turn help shape, the political process. Taking this premise as POL250: Contemporary Department of our starting point, this course will be Issues in Australian Politics and organized around the themes of 'race', Politics: Race, Nation, International 'nation' and 'class', exploring the ways in Class Relations which these dividing categories are articulated and deployed in contemporary Australian politics. Topics covered include race and reconciliation, immigration and multiculturalism, citizenship and fear, the new white nationalism, industrial relations and welfare reform, the contemporary Liberal and Labor parties and the 2007 federal election.

SOC175: Australian and Department of Is Australia a fair and prosperous society Global Societies Sociology or one shaped by inequality and threats? Is Australia becoming a more tolerant and ACADEMIC FREEDOM

open or more closed and divided on major social questions? How does Australia compare to other advanced democracies, and how well are Australians adapting to globalisation? We look closely at contemporary debates and trends in Australian society in diverse areas like family and sexuality, crime and justice, social welfare and community, religion and the media, immigration and racism, and class and employment.

Particular attention will be paid to issues of race, gender, and class. Issues that will be covered include questions of criminal responsibility, domestic violence, SOC236: Crime and Department of hate crimes and crimes of the powerful. Society Sociology Students will be encouraged to re- examine the socially-constructed nature of crime and the role it plays in maintaining social order.

Race, gender and class will be SOC361: Justice, Department of considered throughout to reflect on the Discipline and Punishment Sociology limitations of 'justice' in any system of discipline or punishment.

Gender Issues in the Contemporary Context is a foundational unit that offers an introductory look at Women’s Studies and Gender Studies a tMacquarie University. Topics covered include differences between first, second and third wave feminists; the politics of Division of “raunch”, the body and appearance; the WST110: Gender Issues in Society, legal regulation and media handling of the Contemporary Context Culture, Media abortion issues ; psychological and and Philosophy philosophical meanings of oppression; the politics of housework; contemporary forms of masculinity; culture-gender analyses of sexual harassment, family violence, misogyny and rape; female genital mutilation; gender relations in ancient Athens and modern Japan, and more.

We look at intersections of gender with class, ethnicity, and race. Division of We will also introduce you to some of the WST210: Reading Gender in Society, influential ideas on how gender works, Everyday Life Culture, Media theories by European philosophers and Philosophy like Freud and Foucault, as well as essays by feminist activists and postmodern writers on gender and sexuality Monash University

AIS1050 - Aboriginal The concept of 'the frontier' in colonial Australia and the Peoples, Gender, and the ways in which non-Aborigines and Aborigines responded Colonial Frontier to their encounters in this period. Use of historical and other source materials to explore the ways in which ACADEMIC FREEDOM

gender was constructed by colonists (sealers, whalers, 'humanitarians' and colonial officials) in relation to Aboriginal men and women, and how masculinist discourses were a part of the colonising process. Examination of how gender relations were defined with regard to Aboriginal women and how colonial fears of 'miscegenation' impacted on policies and practices throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

The unit focuses on theories of race and issues of ethnicity, prejudice and racism, with particular emphasis AIS2020 - Racism and on the continuities and discontinuities of discourses on Prejudice 'race' in Australia; language use in a multicultural context; the uses of opinion polls; the representation of Indigenous

people in the media and other forms of popular culture; multiculturalism and Aborigines. The value of an interdisciplinary approach to these topics is highlighted. This Unit analyses two broad, interrelated themes: firstly, the political struggles and activism of Indigenous peoples; and secondly, the numerous Government policies that have affected Indigenous peoples. The first section of the Unit examines these themes from a historical perspective, AIS2025 - Activism, Politics exploring issues such as protectionism, the 1938 Day of and Indigenous Australia Mourning, assimilation, the 1967 Referendum, self- determination and the Aboriginal Tent Embassy. The second section of the Unit discusses several contemporary Indigenous issues that relate to the two themes. These issues include: land rights, native title, deaths in custody, the stolen generation, reconciliation, treaty, welfare reform and sovereignty.

A touchstone of Australian nationalism, sport has played an important role in determining the boundaries of nation by providing (re)presentational types of who Australians are or should be. Until recently images of Australian-ness to emerge in sports reflected the social and political AIS2180 - Aborigines: aspiration of white Australia which formed around Sport, Race and Gender national identity around white masculinity. Despite this, Aboriginal people have both a long history of sporting

participation and an outstanding record of sporting achievement. This unit considers the contribution of Aborigines to sport. Students will gain an appreciation of how ideas of race and gender have influenced Aboriginal participation in sport.

A socio-historical analysis of the institutionalisation of madness and the current practice of de-institutionalisation. ASM4380 - Women, Critical assessment of sociological, medical and feminist Psychiatry and Madness theories of femininity, psychiatry and madness. Examine interpretations of psychoanalysis and female subjectivity (Freudian, Lacanian, French feminist). ASN2170 - Women in Asia: The unit will look at gender relations, cultural Gender, Tradition and definitions of femininity and masculinity and changing Modernity gender roles in Asian societies and cultures. The pre- modern, modern and postmodern condition of women in countries such as Japan and Indonesia, and the issues facing women in Asia today will be explored in depth in a ACADEMIC FREEDOM

comparative context.

Unit introduces the theoretical debates which construct and inform relations between the concepts of gender, bodies and performance. It investigates how different discourses including visual/literary criticism and CLS4760 - Gender, Body psychoanalysis have produced meanings about the body and Performance and gender. It considers the way these discursive constructions of the body have been represented in performance, focusing on how particular technologies of representation contribute to the meanings of the body in performance. A broad definition of performance will be applied, from those events or representations involving the live body and those involving a mediate body.

Unit examines the development of Australian children's literature in the colonial period from 1830 - 1950. Texts are analysed to consider such phenomena as the changing relationship between empire and colony, contradictory ENH2135 - The Colonial representations of Aboriginal people and Aboriginality, Child: Australian Children's emigration propaganda, boy's own adventure narratives, Books 1830-1950 the rise of militarism and nationalism, the emergence of ecoliterature, the influence of educational institutions, and the domestication and feminisation of children's books. Using such theoretical approaches as new historicism, feminism, semiotics and cultural studies, we will consider discourses of childhood, gender and race politics, and aspects of narratology.

Unit examines the development of Australian children's literature from 1950 to the present. Texts are analysed to consider such phenomena as the uses of landscape, the rise of the sub-genres of picture story books, speculative ENH2145 - The Postcolonial fantasy and young adult fiction, the function of nationalist Child: Australian Children's and civic discourses, the influence of pedagogic theory Books 1950-2000 and institutionalised award systems, changing representations of Aboriginal people and Aboriginality within a postcolonial context, and ideologies of growing up. Using such theoretical approaches as new historicism, feminism, semiotics and cultural studies, we will consider discourses of childhood, gender and race politics, and aspects of narratology

Does gender matter? How do ideas about sex and gender shape important questions in our society? How are social, political and economic structures affected by conventional notions about femininity and masculinity? GND1010 - Sex, Gender, This unit introduces the interdisciplinary field of Women's Knowledge Studies and engages students in a series of critical debates concerning sex and citizenship; gender and the law; work and employment; and media and advertising. A range of critical and analytic approaches to contemporary social questions will be introduced and some key contemporary gender debates will be selected for close analysis and problem-based learning.

GND2010 - Contemporary This unit introduces a range of exciting contemporary Feminist Theory feminist theories. Broadly interdisciplinary in its concerns, the unit examines how feminist thinkers theorise around complex and challenging issues such as sex equality and sex difference; pleasure and danger in the ACADEMIC FREEDOM

realm of sexualities; bodies and body modification; fluidity in gender identity; shifting forms of femininity and masculinity; gender and citizenship; bodies, boundaries and nationhood; gender, race and cultural difference. Theorists examined include: Elizabeth Grosz, Luce Irigaray, Helene Cixous, Andrea Dworkin, Iris Marion Young, Richard Dyer, Ann Oakley, Joanna Frueh and others

This unit introduces the growing field of feminist cultural studies by exploring how questions of sex and gender relate to the fields of media and consumption. The unit develops a critical approach to femininity and GND2030 - Gender, Media masculinity and examines popular culture and its and Consumption consumption, enabling students to explore a number of approaches to the field including: critiques of mass cultural

production, advertising and marketing analyses of how cultural meanings are made (including audience response approaches): media content analysis; and feminist (and other) approaches to popular sub-cultures.

This unit focuses on how gender is produced, reinforced and/or critiqued within Australian society, both in the past and currently. Key questions are: What role do historical understandings of masculinity and femininity play in GND2040 - Sex and Gender contemporary sexual politics? How are these played out in in Australian Society literature, film and other forms of media? How do the questions of ethnicity, race and national identity intersect with issues of gender? This unit covers a range of historical periods and utilizes different disciplinary approaches to develop a critical understanding of the operation of sex and gender in Australian society. It includes exciting fieldwork opportunities.

How do science, medicine and gender intersect in contemporary Western societies? How do ideas about sex and gender shape scientific knowledge and medical practice? What impact do gender norms have on the provision and delivery of health care? How does the development of scientific knowledge reflect contemporary GND2050 - Sex, Science ideas about sex and gender? This unit draws on and the Body scholarship in feminist science studies to engage students in current critical debates concerning sex, bodies and medical knowledge. A range of critical analytic approaches to contemporary medical and scientific questions will be introduced and key contemporary debates will be selected for close analysis and problem- based learning.

This unit utilizes themes of love, sex and romance in order to examine the impact of feminist ideas,theories and politics on how we think about popular culture. The unit GND2080 - Feminism and explores the complex ways discourses of romantic love Popular Culture: Love, Sex and (hetero)sexuality feature in our daily lives, the media, and Romance film, television and literature and examines the important contributions recent feminist thought has made how we

understand these phenomena. Using critical analytical feminist concepts, this unit explores how popular romance narratives; celebrity marriages; self-help literature; contemporary fairytales; chick-flicks; internet dating ACADEMIC FREEDOM

represent and shape individual and social experiences of love, sex and romance.

This unit introduces a range of exciting contemporary feminist theories. Broadly interdisciplinary in its concerns, the unit examines how feminist thinkers theorise around complex and challenging issues such as sex equality and sex difference; pleasure and danger in GND3010 - Contemporary the realm of sexualities; bodies and body Feminist Theory modification; fluidity in gender identity; shifting forms of femininity and masculinity; gender and citizenship; bodies, boundaries and nationhood; gender, race and cultural difference. Theorists examined include: Elizabeth Grosz, Luce Irigaray, Helene Cixous, Andrea Dworkin, Iris Marion Young, Richard Dyer, Ann Oakley, Joanna Frueh and others.

This unit examines the changing nature of roles and identities of women in a variety of social and political contexts, drawing upon diverse historical and contemporary political settings. It explores the relationship HPL2505 - Courtesans, between status and power and focuses on the capacities Concubines and Conquest of women to influence the economic, social and political structures, mechanisms and visions of their contexts. Key themes include the importance of women's political status, their access to political representation and participation in judicial processes. These themes underpin analysis of economic/ employment status and opportunities, respect, power, independence, freedom and gender definition.

This unit will explore the relationship between the HSY2400 - Sexuality, aggressive imperialism of the late 19th and early 20th Decadence and Modernity century and changing ideas on sexuality, gender and in Europe c1880-1918 subjectivity. It will also look at questions of race: at concerns about degeneration and 'race suicide', at the emergence of anti-Semitism, and at the connection between racial concerns and questions about sexuality

This unit will examine the changing nature of sexuality in Australia, Britain and North America during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The main topics will be the HSY2410 - History of construction of masculinity and femininity, courtship and Sexuality 1800 - to the marriage, family and kinship, birth control, regulation in the Present private and public spheres, heterosexuality and homosexuality, the theorisation of sex, sexual reformers and sexual liberation movements.

This unit is a history of the way people have related to and thought about the natural environment in the past. It will provide an introduction to recent literature on HYM4180 - Images of the environmental history, including the environmental Natural World: Issues in consequences of European expansion into the New World, Environmental History of industrialization and imperialism, and of medicine and science. Attention will also be given to climate change, plagues and other diseases, and the depletion of natural resources. The subject will conclude with some reflections on the historical underpinnings of current debates about global pollution, population, and global warming.

HYM4185 - Colonial This unit will explore the ways that Britons interacted with Encounters: Ideas of Race people they encountered in locations as diverse as ACADEMIC FREEDOM and 'Otherness' in the Western and Southern Africa, North America, India, British World, 1650-1900 Australia, the Pacific and the Caribbean in the era of exploration and colonisation. It will examine how these newly encountered groups of people were depicted, and will trace the histories of racial designations such as black, white and red. Racism remains a huge problem in 21st century society: this unit will explore the background to this issue, not just narrating the events of British expansion, but putting the issue of 'otherness' and the formation of racial categories at the forefront of the story.

This unit introduces students to a range of feminist perspectives on society. We examine gender relations in both the public and domestic domains. The two major SCY3470 - Women, Gender themes of the unit are labour and love. Through doing this and Society unit students develop a basic knowledge of feminist perspectives on Western Society; skills in reading and

analysing theoretical, empirical and popular texts; the ability to think sociologically about gender issues and to connect personal experience with wider social forces.

This unit explores from a sociological perspective how identities are developed and what role gender and sexuality play in this process. This unit introduces various contemporary theoretical perspectives on the social SCY3818 - Identity, Gender construction of identity and on gender and sexuality as and Sexuality historical and social categories. A specific focus is on the application of the theoretical perspectives to

understanding and analysing everyday life and experience. The unit examines the significance of understanding the formation of identity in context-sensitive ways and in the intersection of various social categories.

This unit explores contemporary feminist theorisings about the mutually constitutive concepts of 'the body', WSM4180 - Sex, Power, sexual and gender difference, together with notions of Self: Feminist Interventions female subjectivity and 'self'; anxieties concerning in Contemporary Discourse comparison, authenticity and identity which permeate debates about embodied consciousness; situated

knowledge; and 'female experience' through the study of three interconnected arenas - sex, power and self. University of Adelaide Unit Descriptions

They are used by politicians willing to appeal to a particular constituency, and by opponents in debates about federation, immigration, aboriginal rights, welfare, the status of women, and the possibility of Australia becoming a republic. In this course, the HIST 2004 - Australia and trajectory of these debates, which have shaped Australian the World in the Twentieth identity, will be explored in addition to the social effects of Century the 1930s Depression, the legacy of the Menzies and Whitlam Governments, Australia's participation in war and its place in the global village. Students will have the opportunity to recall our long-felt deference to Britain, our more recent acceptance of our Aboriginal heritage, our brief flirtation as an Asian nation, and our current 'coalition' with the United States, and ponder where our future might lay. ACADEMIC FREEDOM

This course offers a comparative study of the relations between Indigenous people and Anglo-European settlers HIST 2041 - Aboriginal in societies linked by their colonial origins: Australia, Peoples and the Colonial Canada and New Zealand. It considers European ideas World about race, land tenure and civilisation that accompanied the spread of settler colonialism from the seventeenth

century. The course also explores how Aboriginal peoples responded to the coming of Europeans to their lands.

A history of Aboriginal/European relations in colonial Australia, focussing especially on South Australia. The issues addressed will include land rights, Aboriginal responses to colonisation, frontier violence, government HIST 2017 - History of policy and administration, missions, Aboriginal Indigenous Peoples of engagement in the colonial economy, and European Australia A representations of Aboriginal people. As well as examining 'what happened', the course will also examine how aspects of this history have been remembered in regional communities, and within the national community. Special attention will be given to the analysis of primary source materials, and students will be encouraged to develop an original research project.

This course asks students to consider what it means to take a gender perspective in the fields of international studies and development studies. International development practitioners and global governance institutions have increasingly come to recognise the importance of taking gender issues seriously in their work. This course will focus students' attention on this relationship between gender and the international politics of development by exposing them to the main theoretical debates and comparative country case studies drawn from Gender, International around the world. The initial two lectures of this course will Politics & Development introduce students to the broad field of gender and development. The course will then turn to look at how

different types of feminist/gender theory can provide particular insights into the international politics of development. The final section of the course picks up on current issues in international politics and development studies that have particular relevance to the study of gender. These include issues such as gender and conflict/peacekeeping, the role of the child in international politics, gender and human rights and issues around the role of men and masculinities in international politics and development.

This course covers key issues for the 21st century such as globalisation and the role of the nation state; the impact of international issues on Australian Politics e.g. the 'War on Terror' and Australian relations with the U.S. and Asia; cyberpolitics; the new information economy; genetic POLI 2071 - Issues In engineering; the politics of identity e.g. gender, race, Australian Politics ethnicity and the politics of sexuality; environmental politics; new forms of inequality and the politics of

uncertainty. Particular emphasis is placed on analysing issues in the context of party political discourse and Australian political culture. The course draws on a wide range of analytical and theoretical frameworks from cybertheory to Foucaultian theories of governmentality. ACADEMIC FREEDOM

Gender and Race in Australian History begins by problematising 'women', 'men', 'race', 'Australia' and 'history'. It aims to introduce students to recent work in gender history and critical race and whiteness studies drawing largely on Australian material, but referring also to relevant international material. The content spans a wide variety of topics including work, religion, political and social struggles, ideology, shopping and dancing, sexuality, war, education and migration, and explores issues of class, 'race', whiteness, Indigeneity and ethnicity. GWSI 2003 - Gender & Race in Australian History In this course you will learn about race and gender in Australian history in the period until c1945 and will gain knowledge about some of the major debates in the field. You will learn how to read historical writing and primary sources in a critical manner.

You will become more adept at using various concepts to analyse historical materials. Your skills in research, critical reading and analytical writing will be developed. You will have the opportunity to carry out an Oral History project. You will become a more independent researcher. You will learn more about how to develop coherent arguments, both in written and oral work. University of Melbourne Unit descriptions

This subject offers an introduction to the critical study of popular culture. It engages popular culture as a contested discursive terrain that offers substantial insights into the operations of social power in contemporary culture. By surveying a range of popular cultural formations, on the one hand, and competing critical approaches, on the other, the subject develops a comprehensive overview of how popular culture has been variably constituted in Popular Culture historical, social, political, and theoretical terms. With a principal focus on the mass mediated cultures of (post)

industrialised modernity of film, television, popular music, magazines, comics, advertising, and cybercultures, the subject analyses the diverse values and pleasures of the popular for its multiple audiences. In particular, it looks at how such critical categories as national identity, class, ethnicity, race, gender, sexuality, age, and region are shaped and reshaped in the field of contemporary global popular cultures.

How do we come to experience ourselves as having a gender and a sexual orientation? How do social constructions of gender relate to understandings of sexuality? How have categories like masculinity and femininity; heterosexuality, homosexuality and Gender, Sexuality & Culture bisexuality transformed over time? This subject approaches gender and sexuality as historically and culturally contingent rather than as natural expresssions of a private self. It provides the historical and theoretical frameworks for understanding the rise of specific genders and sexualities in relation to available medical, psychoanalytic, philosophical, political and popular discourses. Drawing on recent formations in both feminism and queer studies, this subject engages with a diverse ACADEMIC FREEDOM

range of cultural texts from the proceedings of court cases to personal advertisements, from celebrity gossip columns to popular film. On completion of this subject students should be able to explicate the complex imbrications of gender and sexuality and to analyse the representation of gendered and sexual identities and desires in selected cultural texts.

This subject allows students to engage critically with Australia as a migrant nation, identifying its complex nature through a variety of disciplinary perspectives. Topics covered include the history and politics of Australian immigration, multicultural policies, theories Migrant Nation: Culture and of multiculturalism, migrant cultural forms and Identity display, racial politics, refugee issues, case studies of migrant communities and ethnic/national identities. Students will engage with the work of historians, social and cultural theorists, policy makers, activists, writers and artists. This course will appeal to anyone with an interest in immigration, multiculturalism, ethnicity and national identity and those who seek to understand contemporary Australian society.

This subject forms a study of late 20th century cultural forms with a special emphasis of film, photography and new media. Two divergent ways of making meaning, alternative culture and the world of the commodity, are studied together to form a comprehensive system for Television and Commodity interpreting how we understand media and culture. Culture Student will encounter a range of cultural styles arising from countercultures and political movements, including information structures, black power, decolonisation movements, and new hierarchies of gender and sexuality, music and drug cultures on screen. On completion of the subject, students should have a knowledge of cultural and cinema theories and their relationship to the viewer/participant..

The aim of this subject is to introduce students to and critically examine the major debates in contemporary critical theories from Western Marxism to postmodernism. These critical theories include the German Frankfurt School, French poststructuralism, the Budapest School, post-Marxism and feminism, all of Critical Theories which are set against the background of the Enlightenment and the Romantic and Heidegerrean responses to it. On

completion of the subject, students should have developed an understanding of the central issues and ideas of the critical theorists covered in this course and be able to convey this understanding through a critical engagement with the issues and theories in the written assessment of the course.

This subject deals with three major areas of indigenous Indigenous Rights: Land discourse. These are indigenous occupation and land and Heritage relations, indigenous heritage (cultural property) rights, and indigenous land justice before and after Mabo. The subject focuses on the nature and extent of indigenous occupation, which is used to examine how indigenous land relations reflect themselves in rights arising from prior ACADEMIC FREEDOM

occupation. It analyses the origins of indigenous rights, and assesses the extent to which indigenous entitlements to land and heritage has been delivered by Australian politico-legal systems. Students who complete this subject will develop an understanding of the inherent rights that indigenous peoples are asserting, and the major barriers to achieving justice and racial equality within Australian politico-legal processes. A significant part of the subject will focus on the indigenous struggle for the ownership and control of cultural heritage and land in South East Australia with particular emphasis on Victorian Kooris. Students will acquire indigenous perspectives on contemporary issues through interaction with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in lectures and tutorials, through audiovisual materials and through the writings of indigenous people in the reading pack. At the end of the subject, a 'cultural camp' will be held in Yorta Yorta country for interested students.

The course looks at the histories of European colonialism and economic imperialism in Australia and the western Pacific, in relation to anti-colonialism and Indigenous peoples' responses and resistance. The course will consider the nature and continuity in the region of Indigenous peoples' overt political activism and resistance, such as peaceful protest, political coups and civil wars; more ambiguous forms of protest through Resisting Colonialism: cultural movements and practices like "cargo-cults", music, Australia-Pacific sport, theatre and dance; and the philosophies and critical theories that accompanied the historical emergence of both grass-roots and global Indigenous movements in the anti-colonial and so-called postcolonial eras. Students will gain access to Indigenous perspectives as well as and in relation to non-Indigenous writing on the major issues and themes considered in the course. In addition students will be encouraged to engage critically with the nature of decolonisation and emergent postcolonialism in the context of related debates and arguments in Australia and the Pacific.

This subject examines issues of human rights during the development of the British Empire in the 19th century and the period of decolonisation in the 20th. It focuses in particular on power, subordination, governance and the construction of ideas of race, including whiteness, in such sites as Australia, Canada, the African colonies, India, Papua New Guinea and the West Indies. Topics Empire, Race and Human include slavery and its abolition, the expropriation of Rights: 1800-2000 indigenous peoples' land, resources and labour, rebellions in the West Indies and India, policies of exclusion/assimilation in the white Dominions, Australian strategies of empire in the Pacific, Indigenous political rights, land rights and reconciliation. On completion of the subject students should develop an understanding of the construction of ideas of race in the former British empire; the movements of resistance (political and otherwise) of colonised peoples against their positions of subordination; the changing ideas of human rights and racial theories, especially after World War 2, and their impact on ACADEMIC FREEDOM

developments in these 'postcolonial' societies.

The central objective of this subject is to encourage critical thinking and writing that revolves around the nature of universal rights and the historical mechanisms by which these have been both denied, suspended, or rendered non-applicable to individuals and groups, and the means by which they have been won. This will be grounded in an historical gauging of the nature of rights and evolving Human Rights in Australian categories of exclusion, inclusion and privilege. The History subject will consider the ways Australia has been imagined as a nation over time and constructed by debates over the make up of its boundaries, subjects and citizens. With attention to the ways in which the apparently universal notion of 'humanity' has shifted, expanded and contracted in direct relation, for example, to race, gender, ability, poverty, and migrant or refugee status, the subject will locate current global human rights issues and debates in historical and local case studies.

This subject examines controversial episodes in the Australian past that commanded public attention, gave rise to heated argument and exposed national divisions. Controversies such as the Myall Creek Massacre, the Eureka rising, the campaign for female suffrage, the conscription referenda in World War One, the Wave Hill walk-off, the Dismissal of 1975 and the Tampa refugee crisis threw up competing interests and generated alternative notions of entitlement. The outcomes had lasting consequences. By studying a number of Controversies in Australian controversies over 200 years of white occupation of History Australia, the subject also reveals changing preoccupations of race, class, gender, nationality, as

well as changing forms of popular participation and public accountability. By considering how the controversies arose and how they were handled the subject provides insight into public life, the creation of consensus and the legitimacy of national institutions. The controversies gave rise to shared memories and competing traditions. They have shaped Australian history and continue to generate alternative interpretations. The subject thus introduces students to some of the key moments in the country's history.

An introduction to the study of social movements and the general issues raised by the problem of social change and political conflict. How and why do political changes occur? If social movements did not exist, would societies need to Change & Conflict in invent them? The subject examines the development and Australian Society political arguments of the principal Australian social movements in the past 40 years and the reactions to them: the green movement; the Aboriginal movement; the women's movement; the homosexual liberation movements; the peace movement; multiculturalism and refugee action groups; the labour movement and the anti-corporate globalisation movement.

Colonial and Postcolonial In this subject students examine fiction by canonical British Writing authors from the late 19th and early 20th centuries who are famous for their treatment of colonial themes like the ACADEMIC FREEDOM

African slave trade, pioneering life, beachcombing, the pall of fear cast by degeneration, Darwinism and dying race theory, hybridity and miscegenation. They also examine some of the more remarkable works by writers from countries that were formerly part of the British Empire but which are now politically independent. In addition to exploring the texts' subject matter, students will learn about their literary styles and narrative conventions. On successful completion of the subject, students will have a greater understanding of the discourses of colonialism and postcolonialism. They will also be able to demonstrate an understanding of the more important theorectical concepts and debates currently engaging postcolonial literary critics.

This subject examines the novel as a key genre within the ongoing history of modernity. It will trace formal and thematic developments within the genre in its current form from the early 19th century to the present. It will analyse how the novel has registered social and cultural changes, The Novel & the Invention characteristic of modernity, over that period focusing on of the Modern the novel's representation of everyday life especially as organised through class and sexuality. It will also

address such matters as the genre's increasing cultural value and the transformations of its relations to other media, old and new. It aims to provide students with a general map of the novel's history against the backdrop of a society undergoing modernization

This subject introduces students to the history of homosexuality in Australia since European arrival. It explores the formation of sexual cultures in the 19th and early- and mid-20th centuries and examines the development of gay and lesbian politics and communities From Mateship to Mardi from 1969 to the present. On completion of the subject Gras students should have developed ways to discuss and theorise homosexuality within an interdisciplinary

framework. A knowledge of the complex history of homosexuality and of homosexual identities should enhance students' understanding of debates around subcultures, social movements and identity politics within Australian society in general.

This subject will look at issues of gender and sexuality in an international context. It will cover war and militarism and their effect on women, the international division of labour, the effects of religious fundamentalisms, the politics of population and reproductive technologies, international trafficking in women, sexual violence and clitoridectomy. Students who complete this subject should International Gender understand the ways in which gender politics might affect Politics the study of international relations; understand how government policy and other forces operating in Australia

and other Western countries are affecting the lives and opportunities of women and relationships between men and women in the rest of the world; be familiar with developments in feminist theory on the issues of human rights, cultural relativism; and have an understanding of international gender politics which can enrich their study of other subjects in the social sciences. ACADEMIC FREEDOM

This subject examines the multiple ways of theorising gender and its relation to other axes of social differentiation such as class, religion, nationality, sexuality, rank, place and ethnicity in Southeast Asia. The subject introduces students to historically specific and ethnographic ways in which theorising about sexual politics can interrogate political institutions (eg. the military, educational systems, health care, public services and Gender and Politics in development projects) and practices (eg. democracy, Southeast Asia authoritarianism and grass roots activism). The subject will explore articulations of women's voices, while at the same time critically examine the construction of masculinity, femininity, and other forms of sexuality in Southeast Asian societies. On completion of the subject students should have a better understanding of nuanced, non-universalising ideas about power, patriarchy, the family, critiques of development, and women's activism in the following countries of Southeast Asia: East Timor, the Philippines, Indonesia, Burma, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam and Malaysia.

The human body is a social construction which has its own history. Beauty, desire, and even sex, have been read into the body in different ways in the past. This subject explores the ways in which the body was read in earlier societies and how those readings have changed. In The Body: History, Sex & particular, we examine the development of the bourgeois Gender body; the 19th century's inscription of new, stricter genderings onto the body; and the concomitant development of the homosexual body. Students should complete the subject with an understanding of the different readings of the body in recent and contemporary society, and of the construction of the slender body, the gay and lesbian body, and the gendered body of the late 20th century.

How has sexual identity and practice been understood, represented and expressed from the late 19th to the late 20th century? This subject will analyse these themes with A History of Sexualities particular attention to theories of sexuality from the sexologists to Freud, feminism and queer theory. It will also explore the history of bisexuality, transvestism, and gay and lesbian movements. On completion of this subject, students should understand the ways in which sexuality both has a history, and is contested.

This subject is a study of beliefs about witches and witchcraft. The subject traces the social, political, legal and cultural changes which led to witch trials and witch-hunts Witches and Witch Hunting in western Europe and New England between the late in Europe middle ages and the end of the 17th century. Students will focus on the transformation of popular sorcery and magic into the heresy and crime of witchcraft, the social dynamics of trials, regional variations throughout Europe, and the role of gender and sexuality in the creation of panics.

Sexual Politics This subject introduces ideas developed in feminist theory about the social and political construction of areas

of experience relating to the body, gender and sexuality. ACADEMIC FREEDOM

Issues analysed in the subject include transsexualism, reproduction, eating disorders, pornography, sexual violence and sexual orientation. Students who complete this subject should be able to understand the ways in which issues connected with the body and sexuality are socially and politically constructed; understand the ways in which the construction of masculinity and femininity affects the learning and regulation of such areas of experience; and apply a variety of feminist approaches to the analysis of these issues.

This subject introduces students to contemporary analyses of gender, exploring the recent histories of feminisms and feminist thinking about gender, difference and the origins of sexual inequality. Key themes include: feminist theorising about the structures and institutions of Sex, Gender and Power sexual inequality including the family, marriage, mothering, sexual divisions of labour, masculinities and femininities, bodies and sexualities; and their relationships to the workings of power, especially the intersections of gender relations with 'race', ethnicity, class and nation. The final section of the course looks at arguments about 'third world' feminisms, and postfeminism in a transnational and global context

An introduction to the study of inequalities, which invites students to think critically about the nature and significance of social divisions. With Australian society as its focus, the subject examines the major dimensions of Australian Society inequality, notably class, gender, race or ethnicity, and sexuality. It studies the principal ways in which inequality

is experienced in the workplace and in the labour market, in the family, in local communities, in the health care system, in the housing market, in the education system, in systems of welfare and in the criminal justice system.

This subject offers a comparative perspective on the distribution of inequalities in human societies over time and in contemporary cultures. The aim of the subject is to investigate the varied manifestations of interactions between power, ideologies and the material world. This will involve us in discussions of the nature of 'egalitarianism' and 'hierarchy' and the way in which Power, Ideology and concepts developed by social theorists influence our Inequality understanding of indigenous ideas, theories and practice. Issues of gender, knowledge production, and access to scarce resources will be considered in relation to political processes and structures through case studies of caste, gerontocracy, Pacific leadership, divine monarchies and colonial cultures. The interplay between domination and resistance will be discussed in the context of colonial and postcolonial states and globalisation. There is a strong area focus on the Asia-Pacific region University of Sydney

Using case studies of Australia, South Africa and the HSTY3683 - Race, Empire Caribbean, this course takes a transitional approach to the and Bondage history of unfree labour in the British Empire from the late eighteenth to the middle of the nineteenth century. We will ACADEMIC FREEDOM

also pursue the related debates over race, class, gender and sexuality convulsing the British Empire (including India) more generally during this period. These themes will be analysed in the light of the historiographical developments of the new cultural history of empire.

Between 1880 and 1930, a modern culture emerged from a collection of disparate colonies and people. Focusing on everyday life and new forms of popular culture, this unit HSTY2604 - Popular Culture follows the threads of modernity, gender and nationalism in Australia 1880-1930 through this formative half-century. Popular stereotypes of Australian men and women evolved from society's engagement with new notions of time and space, urban and rural culture, modernism high and low, changing sexual and family politics, and all the seductive attractions of modern life.

We will explore topics such as the rise and fall of the segregated South, immigration and the nature of ethnic HSTY1076 - American identity, social reform movements, from Populism and History from Lincoln to Progressivism, to the Civil Rights movement, feminism, Clinton gay liberation, the rise of a mass consumer culture of movies, advertising, and standardized products, and the changing stance of the United States in the world, from late starting imperialist aggressor, to isolationist economic power, and then Cold War superpower.

This unit considers the ideology and experience of family, romance, sex, marriage, childhood and parenting in Australia since 1788. It examines the impact within HSTY3691 - The History of colonial, indigenous and modern communities of romantic Love in Australia and domestic ideologies, material circumstances and visions of and for the future. It considers the social place and meaning of mothers, fathers, sons and daughters, and examines the politics of gender in citizenship, medicine, sexuality, cities, rural and suburban families, and national culture and symbolism.

This unit will take a broad comparative approach to the history of class struggles in the early modern Atlantic World. We'll focus on the experiences of the working HSTY3698 - Class Struggles classes - sailors and labourers, slaves and servants, in the Atlantic World witches and rebels - in the Americas, Europe and Africa as they helped create, and make sense of, their own New

Worlds. We'll also try to understand the intellectual developments that have reshaped approaches to the study of both class and the Atlantic World in recent years.

In this unit of study, recent debates within feminist theory will be introduced. By the end of the unit of study, students will have a clear grounding in the fundamental concepts within feminist social, political and cultural theory. The GCST2602 - Suffragettes to course is divided into three blocks. First we explore Cyborgs debates about equality and difference, between women and men, and between women themselves in relation to class, race and ethnicity. Second, debates about power and discourse are introduced with a particular focus on how these concepts are conceived within feminist, postmodernist and poststructuralist theory. Finally, in a block on sex, gender and embodiment, we look at the distinction between sex and gender and at recent ACADEMIC FREEDOM

feminist theories of embodiment which question the sex/gender opposition.

In this unit we explore the interconnections between gender and race in Australian culture and history. We focus on particular case studies, some historical, some contemporary: the so-called "White Australia policy"; GCST3601 - Gender, Race women and the Hindmarsh Island affair; Pauline Hanson and Australian Identities and One Nation; sex tourism; the "stolen generations"; citizenship, nationalism and multiculturalism. Throughout

the course, the history and present of Australian feminism and its relations with questions of race and ethnicity are foregrounded. A major aim of the course is to introduce students to recent feminist postcolonial theorists.

This unit examines difference and diversity within community. It looks at the operation of power and at how power produces and regulates communities and identities. GCST2608 - Gender, It questions the assumption that community is based on Communities and the unity and similarity of citizens and examines Difference alternatives such as difference and sociality. Specific debates about the regulation of reproduction, the production of sexuality, and the provision of welfare are examined. The course is divided into 2 sections: Gender, Community and Difference; and Foucault, Power and Governance.

This unit examines the representation and practices of intimate relations focusing especially on the intersection between intimacy and the constructions of gender. GCST2610 - Intimacy, Love Divided into three sections, the unit will examine theories and Friendship of love and friendship, contemporary cultural representations of love, desire and friendship (especially in film and literature), and the ethics and politics of erotics. It will question the division between erotic love and Platonic love, examine the new technologies of erotics, and discuss the implications for gender and sexuality.

What do men want? From a traditional focus on femininity in gender studies, it is increasingly clear that masculinity has undergone tremendous changes in the last several GCST2609 - Cultures of decades. From a perspective of gender and cultural Masculinities studies, this unit examines the economic, social and cultural contexts in which masculinity is lived. We will consider different case studies focused on the changing representation of men in contemporary culture. These will include aspects of style and consumption, roles within workplaces, and in domestic practices.

From the theoretical basis of feminist cultural studies, this unit examines the ways in which identities are GCST3603 - Consumer increasingly formed through consumption. It looks both at Cultures critiques of consumer societies and at more optimistic theories about the different forms of life that are promoted by consumer culture, including the forms of identity and belonging they engender. We will consider elements of both material culture (e.g. possessions) and media culture.

PHIL2635 - Contemporary A critical introduction to the major schools of thought in Political Philosophy contemporary political philosophy, organized around the theme of inclusion and exclusion. The inclusive ambitions ACADEMIC FREEDOM

of liberal political theory will be confronted with objections from thinkers motivated by concern with various facets of social and political exclusion, notably based on the categories of gender, cultural difference, deviancy and statelessness. Debates relating to refugees and asylum seekers will be considered in the latter part of this unit of study.

This unit introduces students to the study of sociology through an analysis of contemporary Australian society. SCLG1001 - Introduction to Using a range of sociological concepts and theories, we Sociology 1 will analyse society in the period known as 'modernity'. Students will be encouraged to analyse existing social

phenomena through the prisms of gender, sexuality, ethnicity, class, multiculturalism and Indigeneity

This unit of study examines a range of approaches to social justice, including distributive and recognition or identity theories. We ask how one works out what a SCLG2605 - Social Justice socially just society would look like, considering guiding Law and Society principles such as desert, need, merit and equality of resources, opportunity or capabilities. We then link these ideas with principles and practices of legal equality and human rights law and specific contemporary social justice topics such as racial, gender, environmental and international justice

This unit of study examines the main sociological approaches to childhood and youth in modern industrial societies, as well as the ways in which particular perspectives on childhood are central to all social theory. It will examine the debates surrounding the historical SCLG2613 - Sociology of development of childhood, and the various approaches to Childhood and Youth the impact of state intervention and social policies on both the experiences of childhood and youth and the transition to adulthood. Specific topics discussed include; the social construction of child abuse, youth homelessness and youth criminality as social problems, the stolen generations, children and the law, the fertility decline, and the differentiation of childhood experience along lines of class, gender, race and ethnicity.

The focus of this unit of study is on the dynamics of the identification of 'difference' in society, including the processes of stigmatisation and demonisation of 'deviants'. The unit focuses on areas such as the debates SCLG2608 - Social surrounding the 'welfare underclass', unruly youth, Construction of Difference refugees and asylum seekers, trans-gendered persons, the care of the mentally ill ,etc. Significant theoretical debates will be addressed, including 'realism' vs. 'social construction', 'defining deviance down'(Moynihan; Hendershott), the 'Broken Windows' thesis (Wilson and Kelling) and Jock Young's theory of 'Essentialising the Other'.

This unit provides a detailed understanding of how the SCLG2615 - Law and Social work of a broad range of social theorists contributes to a Theory specifically sociological understanding of legal ideas, institutions and practices. After beginning with classical

sociology - Durkheim, Marx and Weber, the unit will then discuss the contributions of the Frankfurt School, ACADEMIC FREEDOM

Habermas, Foucault, Bourdieu, Luhmann, Elias, and Selznick, as well as the more recent perspectives of postmodern and feminist social theory.

This unit will examine the relationship between sport and society, particularly the formation and reproduction of social norms and groupings. Analysing society from modernist and post-structuralist perspectives, students will SCLG2619 - Sociology of use social theories of discourse, identity formation and Sport power relations to explore the role of sport in the development and reproduction of gender, sexual, class,

racial and national groups. Topics discussed include sport as a vehicle of social empowerment or marginalisation, sport as colonialism, and sport as consumption and popular entertainment.

This unit will examine both how human rights discourses and institutions have transformed states and societies (and failed to do so) and how societies have transformed SCLG2620 - Human Rights human rights, connecting this dynamic with broader and Social Transformations questions about the relationship between norms, society and politics. It will consider the often implicit constraints, as well as the liberational potential of human rights, engaging debates about the relationship between human rights and culture, religion, colonialism, imperialism, liberal individualism and globalisation.

In this unit of study Australian social policy is explored: the legal and administrative framework; relationships between SCPL2601 - Australian family and the state; employment, unemployment, unpaid Social Policy work and welfare; the public/private mix; aged care policies, the culture of welfare state provision, indigenous

policies, migration, multiculturalism and the formulation and delivery of social welfare services in Australia.

This unit provides students with an introduction to the understanding of legal ideas, institutions and practices in their social and historical contexts. It will provide an SLSS1001 - Introduction to historical overview of legal institutions and forms of law in Socio-Legal Studies Australia, the place of the idea of the rule of law in state- formation, liberalism, processes of civilization and

colonialism, law and the public/private distinction, changing conceptions of human rights, as well as outlining the central features of the various fields of law.

Australian school children are taught to sing: "we are one, but we are many from all the lands on earth we come." What cultures have shaped Australia? How has Australia’s national image changed over time? Do its multicultural ASTR2604 - Australian claims correspond to diverse lived realities? This unit Multicultures encourages students to investigate the chameleon representation and character of Australian

multiculturalism. Its three modules take an interdisciplinary approach to discussing national images, living multicultures, and public debates about national unity, citizenship and belonging.

In this unit of study we will examine the ways in which GCST2607 - Bodies, feminist and other cultural theories have used bodies and Sexualities, Identities sexualities in order to theorise difference and identity. The body and sexuality have been shown to be a major ACADEMIC FREEDOM

site for the operation of power in our society. We will also look at how bodies and sexualities are central to understandings of identity. The unit of study will be devoted to working through some of the major theories of embodiment, and the analysis of cultural practices. Students will also be encouraged to prepare group projects.

Making ethical choices is in the core of political life. This unit is designed to analyse and understand how ethics belongs in politics, how we can evaluate and justify political choices, and to gain an understanding of the main ethical issues on a range of political questions. The unit is GOVT2665 - Ethics and structured around formal ethical theory and analysis, Politics which can be later used in different settings, from personal to professional ethical dilemmas. Learning takes place by

doing - thinking and talking, presenting and evaluating. In order to learn you need to take part and be open to a challenge. The topics examined during the course include: justice, environmental ethics, immigration, freedom of expression, resource allocation and international aid.

This unit examines how processes of social change are shaped by a variety of non-institutionalised political actors, including individuals, interest groups and social movements. It will answer questions such as: What is political participation? How and why do people act politically in Australia? How does participation both shape GOVT2331 - Social Change policy agendas and lead to societal change? The main and Politics conceptual topics include: political participation, political socialisation, civil society, interest groups and social

movements. This conceptual framework will be used to examine the strategic repertoires adopted by movements and groups in society, including: young people, environmental movements, identity movements, the labour movement, anti-corporate globalisation action and community-based politics.

This unit maps the establishment of British colonies in Australia and their subsequent development. It deals with land settlement, frontier violence, the construction of colonial cultures, the growth of cities and the coming of HSTY1089 - Australia: self government. It also focuses on the movement to Colonies to Nation Federation and the nation building processes that followed. Twentieth century subjects studied include war

and remembrance; political culture and the party system; national identity and popular culture; Indigenous culture; immigration and multiculturalism; the fifties and beyond.

This unit covers the dramatic changes in European life that marked the transition from pre-modern to modern societies. We will see that these changes emancipated HSTY1045 - Modern many Europeans from legal and physical burdens while European History 1750-1914creating many new ones of their own. The catastrophes of the twentieth century have their roots in the period we

examine, a period that culminated in the First World War and the spectacular explosion of the ideals of material and moral progress that had animated bourgeois elites. In particular, we discuss the transformations that took place ACADEMIC FREEDOM

in the key areas of human activity: politics and ideology; family and sexual life; work and technology; religious belief; experiences of colonialism; and social class.

This unit explores the social and cultural history of Britain from the end of the eighteenth century to the present. HSTY2625 - Culture and Themes include the relations between culture, class and Society in Modern Britain gender; the interplay of 'culture' and 'society'; the impact of developments in print culture, film, radio and televison;

and changing ways of thinking about culture and modern life.

This unit begins by looking at European competition for supremacy in North America, and the reasons why England eventually became the dominant colonial power. HSTY2634 - Columbus to Tracing the establishment of diverse white settlements and Lincoln: America Before the introduction of slavery, we explore the way a distinct 1865 national identity developed, leading to revolutionary upheaval and state re-formation. Analysing the subsequent period of geographic expansion, early industrialisation and changes in gender, race and class relations, we conclude with the sectional debates that preceded the Civil War.

This unit examines the intersection between political culture and nationalism in Australia, with particular attention to the question of when (and if?) Australia HSTY2677 - Australia: became an 'independent' nation. It examines the content Politics and Nation and character of British race patriotism in Australia before 1945 and the gradual unravelling of this British myth in the post-war period. Among other issues, the unit explores the end of 'White Australia', the rise of multiculturalism, engagement with Asia, Aboriginal reconciliation and republicanism

Drawing on contemporary sociological analysis this unit critically explores participation, organization and outcomes of social movements. The unit explores the intersections SCLG2607 - Social between citizenship and democracy in relation to social Movements and Policy movements and policy making. Moreover, the unit Making addresses links between societal and cultural arrangements and social movements for change. Students will have the opportunity to explore the theoretical ideas introduced in this unit by investigating a range of social movements, such as, anti-global movements, environmentalism and feminist movements.

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